RC 2 of Parallels Desktop 3.0 Update boosts performance

The Parallels team has issued a new release candidate build for the upcoming …

I haven't been able to confirm this, but I suspect that the management team for Parallels throws the development team a party each time they get a new build out the door. Because of this, release candidates of the upcoming Feature Update are absolutely flying out the door over there, with Feature Update Release Candidate 2 coming less than a week after the first release candidate build.

The latest build doesn't contain much in the way of new stuff, although that's kind of the point of a release candidate. The one new feature that was added is the ability to drag files from Windows into your OS X trash can (the mesh is so much cooler), but the latest release also has a significant number of bug fixes. The CPU and memory usage has been reduced once again, which should make performance-minded folks happy, and some bugs with Coherence and the new Shared Profile feature have also been fixed.

If you really like to live on the bleeding edge, you can download build 5158 and play around with it, but chances are you won't notice anything new unless you were affected by a specific bug that's been fixed. The Parallels blog promises that the Feature Update will be release in "a week or two," but given the speed at which they issue new builds and the relatively small number of fixes in RC2, it'll probably be more like a week. I wonder if I can get invited to the party...